1.Welcome the return of Ron Burgundy. Our Funnyman of the Year is back: nearly a decade after meeting our favorite newsman, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues hits theaters Friday. Things to be excited about:

2.Get personal with Talib Kweli. Talib Kweli’s sixth solo album, Gravitas, is now available, via download only at kweliclub.com. (CD and Vinyl copies won’t drop until February.) Gravitas, recorded while Kweli was on this year’s Heist Tour with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, is a collection of personal, reflective tracks from the rapper. The download platform allows Kweli to sell directly to fans-purchasing the album puts them in touch with Kweli by adding them to his "personal address book," a dedicated account on his phone, so that they can email him directly. Which could make your Gmail chains a lot more interesting. We asked Kweli to share a track from his album:

3.See how Scarlett Johansson compares to other famous lady-bots. Spike Jonze’s rom-com/sci-fi mash-up, Her, opens in select theaters Wednesday. Joaquin Phoenix plays a lonely, mustachioed writer who develops an intimate relationship with "Samantha," a sweetly, and scarily, intuitive computer operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson. We ranked ScarJo’s Samantha among other famous lady-bots-here, in order from best to please-unplug.

Rosie the Robot Maid, The Jetsons (1962-1985): Sweet, wise, and willing to vacuum your living room.
Lisa, Weird Science (1985): A teen boy’s dream. Literally.
Samantha, Her (2013): ScarJo voices the operating system that’s designed to meet Phoenix’s every need…except for, well, you know. Looks like they fall for each other, which is both very sweet and very Twilight Zone.
Jessie, Toy Story 2 (1999): Afraid of the dark and technically a pull-string doll. Bonus points for being voiced by Joan Cusack though.
Fembots, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997): They have boob cannons because, ugh.

4.Witness the return of Bobby Womack. Over a year after releasing his album, The Bravest Man In The Universe, and taking on a public battle with cancer, the soul music legend is back onstage. Well, sort of. He’s back in New York City, playing a three-night stint of shows at City Winery beginning Friday. The Bravest Man In The Universe was, as he describes, his first album of original material in eighteen years-it’s also filled with pleasantly gruff vocals, a blend of classic and modern R&B instrumentals, and lyrics that are, what else, soulful. Can’t make the show? Have a listen to his Lana Del Rey collab from the album, "Dayglo Reflection," below. And, in the meantime, here’s hoping these will just be the first in a new string of tour dates.

5.Check out the movie that everyone is freaking out over. It tied for the mostGolden Globe noms last week. It was named the year’s best movie by the New York Film Critics Circle. And, it made Christian Bale gain a gut and did THIS to Bradley Cooper’s hair. American Hustle—about a con man and his partner forced to work for a crazy FBI agent to take down a crooked politician—finally hits theaters Friday. And we can’t wait—the David O. Russell flick it looks all kinds of wild, over-the-top, Jersey-accented, seventies-era glammed up awesome.

6.Don’t expect (too many, at least) answers from All The Light In The Sky. Joe Swanberg’s latest—in theaters Friday—is a strange delight. The director teamed up with actress Jane Adams who co-wrote and inspired the film. It’s about an actress living in Malibu who hosts her younger, twenty-something actress niece for a weekend stay, which forces her to confront her fears, relationships, decisions—after sharing her experiences as, uh, an actress living in Malibu. Swanberg and Adams put together a one-page outline for the film, leaving the rest up to the cast’s improvisation: "I laid it out, the story, figuring out the beginning, middle, and end of this thing and then once we actually started shooting, it’s sort all up for grabs." The result? A quirky, honest, rambling, beautiful, sometimes confusing, satisfying movie with a somewhat unsatisfyingly unresolved, albeit optimistic-ish, ending. Sort of, well, totally, like his summer hit Drinking Buddies. We called up Swanberg to find out why.

GQ: Like Drinking Buddies, things don’t get wrapped up in a nice, tidy bow at the end of All The Light In The Sky. Is it hard to avoid the typical happy ending?

Joe Swanberg: For me, it is. I just can’t—I mean, the end of a movie never feels like the end to me. It’s like, OK, this is the hour-and-a-half that you spent with this character. Now that character goes off and has her rest of her life. It’s really hard, for me, to imagine any of that stuff ending. I think everything I’ve made has relatively ambiguous final shots or final ideas.

7.Brush up on your rock history in If These Walls Could Rock. The legendary Sunset Marquis hotel celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a look back at the music royalty that have checked in over the years in If These Walls Could Rock, with a collection of photographs and stories from the likes of The Ramones, Slash, and Bob Marley. Here, one of our favorite photos from the tome snapped by photographer Kim Gottlieb-Walker.

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